Name Kathryn Flett | Role Critic | |
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Born 1 April 1964 (age 59) ( 1964-04-01 ) Watford, Hertfordshire, England Education Notting Hill and Ealing High School Books The Heart‑shaped Bullet, Separate Lives, Outstanding, Separate Lives Proof | ||
Kathryn Alexandra Flett (born 1 April 1964) is a British TV critic, author, and star of the BBC's Grumpy Old Women series. She was educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School, and Hammersmith and West London College.
Flett began her career as a staff writer for i-D Magazine in 1985. This was followed by a period as features editor and fashion editor of The Face (1987-1989), three years as a freelancer, and then editor of Arena magazine from 1992-1995.
In 1995, at the age of 31, Flett joined The Observer as associate editor of the magazine Observer Life, later becoming a features writer and TV critic on the newspaper.
In 1997, Flett's husband of just 17 months had just left her and the couple were going through a messy divorce. Flett found an outlet for her grief by writing about the break-up in gory detail, week-by-week, in her Observer newspaper column. She published a book about the relationship, The Heart-shaped Bullet (ISBN 0330370383) in 1999.
Since 2004, Flett has starred in the BBC TV’s Grumpy Old Women series and, in 2008, was a judge on Channel 4’s Miss Naked Beauty. Her first novel, Separate Lives, was published July 2012 by Quercus Books. Her latest book "Outstanding" was published in April 2016 by Quercus books.
Flett was given an honorary M.Litt by the University of Brighton in 2015.
In April 2016 Flett began writing a fortnightly restaurant review column in The Daily Telegraph.